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title: When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the e… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, ‘There, now try to take my property!’ Who acts: Mark. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 28

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When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, ‘There, now try to take my property!’

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**Who acts:** Mark · **What happens:** drive, draw up, carry, throw over, mutter, try · **To what, where:** miles, child, edge, precipice, property

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:4:28
# text = When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, ‘There, now try to take my property!’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · perfect | Mark | some miles |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme |
| 2 | **draw up** | past | Mark | some miles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  | the child |  | the edge of a steep precipice |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to edge=Destination |
| 4 | **throw over** | past |  | precipice |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  | there | now |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | my property |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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